Fort Mill, SC – June 18, 2013 – Team GT veteran, Carl Renezeder, has himself a six-pack…of wins that is. To date, in the 2013 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) season, Renezeder has managed to take home all six of the Pro-4 winner trophies. In fact, he has an eight race Pro-4 winning streak that dates back to the Challenge Cup in 2012. This weekend at Miller Motorsports Park, Renezeder looks to extend that streak to 10 and add to his list of 111 career wins.

While Renezeder makes winning look easy, the competition in LOORRS is anything but. To win a LOORRS race a driver needs tenacity, finesse, assertiveness and a good set of General Tire Red Letter Grabbers. The combination of changing track conditions, truck set-up and the other 15+ drivers around you, make for some dicey situations but Renezeder has the right combination figured out and we sat down with him this week to find out how he makes the on-track magic happen. Here’s what he had to say:

Las Vegas, NV – The LoanMart Racing Team underwent a major expansion in 2013 adding Austin Kimbrell’s Pro2, Corry Weller in Pro4 and Oscar Rodriguez, RJ Anderson and Ryan Beat in the Prolite class. The entire driver line-up has years of racing experience but it is also a season of firsts for the team. Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Rounds 3 and 4 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway showed what they are capable of when they are firing on all cylinders.

After qualifying eighth for round 3, Corry Weller took her first Pro4 podium of the season by holding off a hard charging Eric Barron for the third spot. While Rob MacCachren and Carl Renezeder were fighting for the lead, Corry was in a tense battle; banging doors for two laps with Barron. The poise and determination she has demonstrated throughout her racing career was once again on display and her truck was hooked up despite the punishment. The crowd went crazy when she beat Barron to the line.

For Austin Kimbrell the first rounds of the series have been filled with frustration. In pre-season testing, he was very fast in his LoanMart Pro2 but ill-timed driveline issues have taken him out of the running on raceday. In round 3, he lost a motor causing his crew to work through the night to prepare for round 4 qualifying. The hard work paid off when Austin took the truck out and qualified third for Sunday’s race.

LAKE FOREST, CA (May 2, 2013) – Not only has eight-time champion, Carl Renezeder, swept the first four rounds of races in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Pro-4 division in 2013, if you go back to the end of 2012, you’ll find that he’s on a six-race winning streak and has won eight out of the last nine races. That’s a pretty serious stat. It’s all business when the he straps the helmet on and pulls the belts tight, but there’s a lighter side to Renezeder that friends, family, crew and fans also find endearing.

For instance, before he climbed into the race truck on Saturday afternoon, he arrived in staging whistling the tune to the Andy Griffith Show. It’s good to know that while he takes the racing very seriously, he doesn’t take himself all that serious. Even his chatter over the radio to his spotter is comprised of goofy moments, like the lap before the green flag in Sunday’s Pro-2 race when his request was to “please keep me apprised of all the inside line craziness.” Perhaps that kind of lightheartedness is what’s need to balance out the intensity of four races in two days, and all the demands that go along with it.

LAKE FOREST, CA – The scorecard at the end of the opening weekend of racing for Carl Renezeder said three wins and one second out of four races. That kind of near-perfection doesn’t come around often, and the team was wise to pause for a moment on Sunday night to thank one another for the hard work, dedication and optimism during the off-season that paid off all weekend.

“You guys gave me reliable, fast trucks that I could put anywhere I wanted to on the track,” commented Renezeder to his crew at the close of rounds one and two of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series season at Firebird International Raceway this past weekend. “I’m really proud of this team.”

CORONA, Calif. – General Tire returns for its seventh season with Lucas Oil in 2013, a partnership that includes Official Tire status in all six of Team Lucas’ motorsports series and a presence that cuts a broad swath across the landscape of American motorsports.

General Tire will be a part of event and television sponsorship in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Lucas Oil Drag Boat Series, Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series, Lucas Oil Modified Series, Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League and Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. It also will have a high profile in the 29 events at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri.

General Tire has television entitlement and presenting rights on CBS, CBS Sports Network, SPEED, NBC Sports Network for the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, Lucas Oil Drag Boat Series, Lucas Oil Late Model Series, Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League and the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series. It also participates in the broadcasts of the GEICO AMA EnduroCross presented by Lucas Oil and the General Tire Best in the Desert Series on the Lucas Oil Motorsports Hour on the NBC Sports Network and MAVTV American Real.

January 14, 2013 – The Lucas Off-Road Racing Series – the pinnacle of off road short course racing is rapidly climbing up the leader board of televised motor sports and is now ranked second only to NASCAR in cumulative on-air hours. The 15 race series plus the season ending *”Challenge Cup” will air a total of 110 hours of original first run programming. These include 8 one hour shows on CBS; 32 one hour shows on CBS Sport Network, (64 hours with re-airs); 8 one hour shows on NBC Sports Network (16 hours with re-airs); 30 one hour shows on SPEED (60 hours with re-airs) and 32 one hour shows on MAVTV (64 hours with re-airs).

According to Joyce Julius and Associates – the independent sports and special event evaluator of corporate sponsorships, the 2012 Lucas Off Road Racing Series – generated over $65 million in value for series sponsors with an additional $48.4 million in value for team sponsors.Live race attendance was also up a substantial 13% in 2012..

Nissan Trucks recently released a short film featuring Titan drivers Carl Renezeder and Casey Currie in action during the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series at Firebird Raceway in Arizona.

Featuring super-slo-mo HD footage and sit-down interviews with both drivers, the video highlights the Nissan drivers on and off the track, allowing them to describe what it’s like to hurl their race trucks over short-course off-road jumps on the racetrack.

Fort Mill, SC – It was a wild finish to the 2012 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) season at Firebird International Raceway that saw General tires drive Carl Renezeder to two more wins to wrap up the year. Team GT posted two wins and 10 podium finishes on the weekend as teams regroup and prepare for 2013. Overall General tires helped Team GT members to 11 wins and more than 40 podium finishes in 2012.

“Congratulations to all our teams on their accomplishments in 2012,” said Travis Roffler, director of marketing for General Tire. “Every member of Team GT has worked tirelessly this year to reach the top of the podium. Their dedication and determination is second-to-none and we’re looking forward to an even stronger run in 2013.”

“The Lucas Oil Challenge Cup is always crazy,” said Renezeder. “When you put money and bragging rights on the line without any championship implications, things can get out of hand. We had a perfect day and a perfect race, and that’s why we were able to win. We avoided the carnage and the truck was exactly how I love it – I could put it anywhere and it would work. I’m incredibly proud of our team and the way we’ve worked through the adversity of the first half of the season to finish with five wins over the last two events.”

Fort Mill, SC – Team GT member Carl Renezeder is arguably one of the most revered drivers in short course racing. And at last weekend’s Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, he hit the century mark in the win column adding to his long list of racing achievements. It was a moment that had been years in the making through thousands of hours of hard work and the kind of determination, tenacity and dedication it takes to make champions.

“To see Carl win his 100th career short course race was something special,” said Travis Roffler, director of marketing for General Tire. “And to do it on General tires…that was a proud moment. I’ve known Carl for a long time and I know the level of work he puts not only into his racing, but into every aspect of his life. He’s a champion in every sense of the word and everyone at General Tire is proud to call him a member of our team. We congratulate Carl and his entire team on win number 100!”

You won’t want to miss the exciting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat off excitement that the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series consistently delivers. The Glen Helen Rounds were held under the lights and all the drivers put on a great show with spectacular racing and even more spectacular carnage.